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here,’ he told me. ‘I’ve also been accused of collaborating with
the enemy, although I was way more active on behalf of the
Soviet soldiers in my charge than anyone else. I headed a
large hospital, which treated dozens of soldiers who had been
injured in the German blitz on the city. When we heard that
the Germans were advancing, everyone – all the sta members,
the medical workers, and the administrators – all ed, and only
I and one of the nurses, who was Jewish just like me, remained
with the patients. We both felt that we could not abandon
the wounded soldiers and leave them to the Nazis’ mercy, and
we treated them with dedication and care. We helped anyone
who was able to get out of bed to escape and hide before the

Chapter 24Germans arrived, but in the end, we remained alone with tens

of incapacitated soldiers.

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her wupit.h” the Germans. I asked my interrogator what I could have

done di erently, and he said that I should have ed, and not let